The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a CTO

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3	1	Basics	Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?	Blog post	Mark Suster	@msuster	A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. I don’t believe that one exists. Every team configuration is different. But I do have more insight into…
4	1	Basics	What does a startup CTO actually do?	Blog post	Eric Ries	@ericries	What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking it's synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think 'technical' deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim.
5	1	Basics	The Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success	Ebook	Tom Berray, Raj Sampath	@tberray	One can argue that this role is among the least understood of all c-level (CEO, COO, CFO) positions in the executive suite. But given the impact of technology on business organizations over the last twenty years, it may be the most promising when considering ‘competitive strategy’ in the future.
6	2	Business	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Hardcover	Book	Peter Thiel, Blake Masters	@peterthiel@bgmasters	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder, and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters.
7	2	Business	The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business	Book	Clayton Christensen	@claychristensen	The revolutionary business book that has forever changed corporate America. Based on a truly radical idea—that great companies can fail precisely because they do everything right—this Wall Street Journal, Business Week and New York Times Business bestseller is one of the most provocative and important business books ever written.
8	2	Business	Building an Innovative Learning Organization	Book	Russell Sarder	@russellsarder	How to create this culture in your organization, with detailed explanations, practical examples, and step-by-step instructions so you can get started right away. Written by a recognized thought leader in the training industry, this informative and insightful guide is your roadmap to a more effective organization.
9	2	Business	The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results, 3rd Edition	Book	Roy V. H. Pollock		The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning presents an innovative approach that accelerates the transfer and application of corporate learning.
10	3	Culture	How To Use Your Unfair Advantage To Create an Unforgettable First Day For New Hires	Blog post	Oren Ellenbogen	@orenellenbogen	Even though feeling productive is a strong emotion, it is also a short-lived one. In order to create a long lasting emotion, a real WOW effect, you have to create a personal bond.
11	3	Culture	Building a Strong Company Culture, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky	Blog post	Zach Bulygo	@zachcb1	Alfred Lin and Brian Chesky explain what culture is and how to build a strong one.
12	4	Education	MIT OpenCourseWare	Online Course	MIT OpenCourseWare	@mitocw	OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web.
13	4	Education	Stanford Engineering Everywhere	Online Course	StanfordCPD	@StanfordCPD	Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online and at no charge. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. The SEE course portfolio includes one of Stanford's most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science.
14	5	Lesson Learned from Founders	#define CTO	Blog post	Greg Brockman	@gdb	I joined Stripe as an engineer in 2010. I began by working on the backend infrastructure: designing the server architecture, creating our credit card vault, and producing internal abstractions to make people’s jobs easier. I loved writing code...
15	5	Lesson Learned from Founders	Five years, building a culture, and handing it off.	Blog post	Kellan Elliott-McCrea	@kellan	Five years ago I joined a tiny site, with a struggling software product. I wasn’t sure how long I’d stay. I was coming off 5 intense years helping scale Flickr. But I had some theories about…
16	5	Lesson Learned from Founders	Learnings from 80 startup CTOs	Blog post	Javier Escribano a.o.	@fesja	I participated in a startup CTO meet-up organized by Rodrigo Martinez, an early stage investor at Berlin-based VC firm Point Nine Capital. There were the top Spanish startup CTOs and several other European CTOs. I have summarized the notes I took.
17	5	Lesson Learned from Founders	Surviving being senior (tech) management.	Blog post	Kellan Elliott-McCrea	@kellan	As a CTO one of the most consistently challenging responsibilities to feel like I was doing well was supporting the senior leaders who reported...
18	5	Lesson Learned from Founders	How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO	Blog post	Ian Langworth	@statico	Artillery Co-founder and CTO Ian Langworth talks about the tactics required to make the jump to technical leadership.
19	6	Management	On Managing Developers (techcrunch.com)	Blog post	Jon Evans	@rezendi	I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager–and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.
20	6	Management	The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win	Book	Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford	@realgenekim@kevinbehr@gspaff	In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.
21	7	Money	Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist	Book	Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson	@bfeld@jasonmendelson	Get the inside scoop on what venture capitalists want to see in your startup Venture Deals provides entrepreneurs and startup owners with a definitive reference for understanding venture capital funding.
22	7	Money	CTO Equity and compensation at Startup	Blog post	Tony Karrer	@tonykarrer	A ton of data on Start CTO Salary and Equity at Venture Backed Companies.
23	7	Money	How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get	Blog post	Nathan Hurst	@nahurst	Through Hirelite, cofounders often ask me how much equity a technical cofounder should get. The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer...
24	7	Money	Co-Founder Equity Calculator	Tool			Co-Founder Equity Calculator is based on almost 3 years of one-on-one discussions with entrepreneurs through the co-founders meetup and the startup conference.
25	8	Networking	How to Win Friends and Influence People - Wikipedia	Book	Dale Carnegie		It is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) and first published in 1936, it has sold over 30 million copies world-wide, and went on to be named #19 on Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential books in 2011
26	8	Networking	9 networking tips for introverts	Blog post	Sharon Florentine	@myshar0na	Successful networking can be difficult for anyone, but it’s especially challenging if you’re introverted and shy by nature. Here, experts share networking tips that should make the process easier, if not completely painless.
27	8	Networking	CEO Secrets on Work-Life Balance – 10 Must Dos	Blog post	Steve Tappin	@SteveTappin	We interviewed many top CEOs, asking them what they do to maintain this balance and came up with 10 top tips.
28	9	Productivity	14 super-busy startup founders share their single best productivity tip	Blog post	Rob Walling	@robwalling	In this post, busy CEOs and founders of 14 fast-growing companies shared how they hack their productivity.
29	9	Productivity	How to Be Productive: The Mindmap of 35 Habits of Funders and Founders Notes	Infographic	Funders and Founders	@fundersfounders	The Mindmap of 35 Habits of the Uber-Productive.
30	10	Public speaking	An Introvert’s Guide to Better Presentations – Matt Haughey – Medium	Blog post	Matt Haughey	@mathowie	Improving your public speaking despite hating crowds
31	10	Public speaking	Great Presentations: Tips From Great Presenters	Blog post			Consider this a pre-flight checklist for delivering world-class presentations
32	11	Remote Teams	How to Protect Your IP When Outsourcing	Blog post	Mateusz Warcholinski	@mwarcholinski	Want to outsource software development for your company but worried about security? Here's how to protect your Intellectual Property while outsourcing.
33	11	Remote Teams	The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work - Zapier	Ebook	Wade Foster	@wadefoster	Working remotely and running a remote team seem like black magic to many. Yet at Zapier, we've been working remotely since our founding in October of 2011. This book shares everything we've learned about running a remote team—our successes and our failures.
34	12	Sales	Jeff Szczepanski- The Developer's Guide To Running Sales Teams on Vimeo	Video	Jeff Szczepanski	@inscitekjeff	Business of Software Europe 2014. Jeff Szczepanski, Stack Exchange. For technical founders and software developers in general, building out the sales aspects.
35	12	Sales	A Guide to Sales at Tech Startup—Lessons from Pipeline Summit 2016	Blog Post			When I started to do sales full-time at Brainhub last year, I did what I usually do to master my skills — I tried to find people wiser than me and copied their skills&hacks. So, of course, I started…
36	12	Sales	Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com	Book	Aaron RossMarylou Tyler	@motoceo@maryloutyler	This is NOT another book about how to cold call or close deals. This is an entirely new kind of sales bible for CEOs, entrepreneurs and sales VPs to help you build a sales machine. What does it take for your sales team to generate as many highly-qualified new leads as you want, create predictable revenue, and meet your financial goals without your constant focus and attention?
37	13	Team	Teammates First Deadlines Second	Blog post	Oren Ellenbogen	@orenellenbogen	Even though you’ve got plenty to prove, one of the things that should be on your mind when you’re managing people is how you can engage them in a way that will make them respect you and earn their trust.
38	13	Team	Managing and Motivating Developers: Tips for Management Cluefulness	Blog post	Esther Schindler	@estherschindler	Encouraging productivity from your programming staff--at least in the developers' estimation--requires a few special techniques.
39	13	Team	21 Rules of Thumb for Managing Software People and Teams	Blog post	Mickey W. Mantle & Ron Lichty	@RonLichty	An oft-overlooked tool in a manager's arsenal is the 'rule of thumb'—a short, pithy statement embodying a powerful message that makes a lasting impression on the listener. Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty, co-authors of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, identify eight major management challenges and 21 rules of thumb to help managers address those challenges.
40	13	Team	7 simple rules for hiring great developers	Blog post	Dan Tynan	@tynanwrites	Top developers can write their own ticket in today's tech hiring market, so how do smaller operations or startups attract skilled talent? From weeding out rocks stars to mentoring on the job, hiring managers explain how they build dev teams that really work.
41	14	Tech	The SaaS CTO Security Checklist	Checklist			Protect your applications from cybersecurity threats
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